I agree with what I think Marc is suggesting, that we can get a good solution here without accounting for all (or perhaps any) memory leaks.
The Julia project doesn't really care about memory leaks in this context anyway. Here's a comment by one of the language designers, Stefan Karpinski (they're not subscribed to this list): >> Since the function could have allocated memory for intermediate computations, >> how do you avoid memory leaks? > > Not much you can do: chances are if you get to the point of OOMing, the > process is going to crash, we just want the ability to do it more gracefully > than a C abort call, which is something that a library should really never do. > If GMP wants to be super careful, it could free anything that was allocated > before returning an error, but it would also be fine to document that when an > OOM error is returned some allocated memory may be lost. (Original: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/31215#issuecomment-704279237 ) _______________________________________________ gmp-bugs mailing list gmp-bugs@gmplib.org https://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-bugs